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Track information and stakes schedule for the 2013 Woodbine Spring thoroughbred meet, which starts Saturday, April 20, highlighted by the 154th $1 million edition of the Queen's Plate, the first jewel in Canada's Triple Crown of Racing, on Sunday, July 7.Full Story >>
YESTERDAY May 25, 2013

Solid Appeal ($18.60) outran the favored Irish Mission in the final furlong to notch her first stakes win Saturday at Woodbine in the Grade 2, $213,200 Nassau.

I’m a Kittyhawk won her stakes debut at Woodbine on Saturday, taking the $125,000 Lady Angela as the second-longest shot on the board with a fine ride from David Moran.

May 24, 2013

Dynamic Sky, who is headed for the Plate Trial, breezed five furlongs in 1:01.20 on the Polytrack here at Woodbine on Friday under exercise rider Corey Fraser.

Something Extra tries to win the $200,000 Connaught Cup Stakes at Woodbine for the second straight year on Sunday, when he will face last year’s Canadian champion turf male Riding the River in the seven-furlong turf sprint.

Up With the Birds, trained by Malcolm Pierce, will be looking to use Sunday’s $150,000 Marine Stakes as his stepping-stone to the $1 million Queen’s Plate.

May 23, 2013

Strut the Course, a smart winner of her 2013 debut at seven furlongs, will look to punch her ticket to the June 9 Woodbine Oaks with a strong performance here in Saturday’s $125,000 Lady Angela.

The big chestnut Irish Mission, last year’s Canadian champion 3-year-old filly and champion turf female, returns to Woodbine on Saturday in the $200,000 Nassau, the first turf stakes of the meet.

Dramatic $500,000 purse cuts for the Grade 1 Canadian International and Grade 1 E.P. Taylor, both among Woodbine’s showpiece events, have been announced with the release of the second part of Woodbine’s stakes schedule for the 2013 meeting.

May 22, 2013

Canadian Triple Crown nominees Honorable Guest and County Lineman will both negotiate a mile and a sixteenth for the first time Friday at Woodbine against older Ontario-sired opposition in the $56,000 allowance feature.

Coffee Clique was back on Polytrack last Sunday at Woodbine and ran her local record to 2 for 2 with a four-length victory in the Grade 3, $156,300 Selene Stakes